does the escape key on a keyboard actually do anything?

Answer 1

if you press alt escape it will switch between windows that you have open, good for lazy people, or if you lose your mouse

Answer 2

Depends on the program you use... It's main functionality is for canceling actions, hide windows, terminate the application. This is the "intuitive" behavior... Nevertheless you can write your own application which by pressing escape will begin playing a movie or to open a website... this is senseless but it can be easly done... And ofcourse some applications can "trap" the "press" action of this key and "ignore" it's behaviour also.

Answer 3

Yes. It depends on what the key has been programmed to do for the program that is running. The esc key is usually for going back a screen or exiting a program.

Answer 4

Escape stops running programs






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Answer 5

Yes, its used for all sorts of things, mainly to escape out of programs. If you hit cntrl and escape the start menu pops up.

Answer 6

Yeah depending on the program it can be used as a key.

Answer 7

Yes, some programs respond to 'esc', others don't.
For example: Try to maximise windows media player, then press 'esc', the program window will go back to its normal size.
It all depends on the program you are using.

Answer 8

in case your observing a action picture on line, in complete exhibit screen or a video on youtube, you press the ESC to go out from complete exhibit screen. this is somewhat no longer the only factor it somewhat is used for however.

Answer 9

Many things actually. Most programs use it as a cancel option.

Answer 10

it closes windows instead of clicking on the x button in the top corner or it can b used in some games